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<blockquote data-quote="HeapThaumaturgist" data-source="post: 2500021" data-attributes="member: 12332">Also pro-con your animal companion.&nbsp; I've always been fond of the Crocodile, myself ... a little slow, but has a powerful melee attack (tail slap), wreaks havok in the water, and is low enough level to have all the fun extras from being an animal companion.Or go with a Dire Weasel ... Con Damage is a pretty harsh attack.&nbsp; At low-mid levels I like to transform into a Dire Weasel as well and go for the TWIN WEASEL STRIKE.&nbsp; It's fun, if nothing else.You get Flame Strike at a lower level than Clerics do, and it's a good AoE spell.I like the swarm-summon spells, as swarms are a pain in the butt ... Summon Swarm is good for annoying low-Fort casters and plinking away their HP ... Insect Plague is a good AoE with a morphic area (as swarms have to occupy contiguous squares, but not form traditional square shapes).You have to think a little more with the Druidic AoE and control spells because they're generally annoying to anybody in them and rather persistent ... but don't try to maximize your area of effect ... if your Entangle only has half of its area on the battlefield, but is consistently nerfing a back rank of archers, then it's much better than tossing it down in the middle of the room and forcing your own fighters to make saves every round.&nbsp; Same with the Spike Growth spells, etc etc.--fje</blockquote>

[QUOTE="HeapThaumaturgist, post: 2500021, member: 12332"] Also pro-con your animal companion. I've always been fond of the Crocodile, myself ... a little slow, but has a powerful melee attack (tail slap), wreaks havok in the water, and is low enough level to have all the fun extras from being an animal companion. Or go with a Dire Weasel ... Con Damage is a pretty harsh attack. At low-mid levels I like to transform into a Dire Weasel as well and go for the TWIN WEASEL STRIKE. It's fun, if nothing else. You get Flame Strike at a lower level than Clerics do, and it's a good AoE spell. I like the swarm-summon spells, as swarms are a pain in the butt ... Summon Swarm is good for annoying low-Fort casters and plinking away their HP ... Insect Plague is a good AoE with a morphic area (as swarms have to occupy contiguous squares, but not form traditional square shapes). You have to think a little more with the Druidic AoE and control spells because they're generally annoying to anybody in them and rather persistent ... but don't try to maximize your area of effect ... if your Entangle only has half of its area on the battlefield, but is consistently nerfing a back rank of archers, then it's much better than tossing it down in the middle of the room and forcing your own fighters to make saves every round. Same with the Spike Growth spells, etc etc. --fje [/QUOTE]

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